Senior Software Engineer

Upslope Advisors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, integrate, deploy, and sustain full-stack applications and cloud infrastructure supporting federal artificial intelligence initiatives. The role involves establishing reusable engineering patterns, managing CI/CD pipelines, integrating AI services, and ensuring applications are scalable and maintainable.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop front-end, middleware, API, database, and back-end application components
• Build applications using React, Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, and comparable technologies
• Design software architecture, interfaces, APIs, data flows, and integration patterns
• Develop scalable, maintainable, and reusable application components
• Translate user, business, and mission requirements into effective technical solutions
• Support application installations, upgrades, configuration, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
• Develop cloud infrastructure using Terraform and other infrastructure-as-code tools
• Build and maintain Git-based continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Implement automated testing, code-quality controls, vulnerability scanning, and release-management processes
• Support repeatable application builds, deployments, rollback procedures, and environment configuration
• Integrate application logging, performance monitoring, observability, and alerting
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, deployment, integration, and application-performance issues
• Refactor and onboard externally developed applications into controlled enterprise environments
• Develop reusable software-engineering standards, templates, reference architectures, and onboarding procedures
• Establish consistent engineering patterns for application development, integration, testing, deployment, and sustainment
• Conduct application and architecture assessments and recommend modernization approaches
• Support system integration across cloud services, enterprise platforms, APIs, databases, and external applications
• Conduct code reviews, design reviews, technical demonstrations, and knowledge-transfer sessions
• Integrate AI and machine-learning models and generative AI services into production applications
• Support the integration of retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, advanced chatbots, predictive models, and document-processing services
• Collaborate with AI engineers and data scientists to develop reliable application interfaces for AI-enabled capabilities
• Implement appropriate application controls, logging, monitoring, and error handling for AI services
• Support the onboarding and production operation of externally developed AI applications
• Support role-based access control, identity management, secrets management, and audit logging
• Implement security controls within applications, cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and integration services
• Support vulnerability remediation, security authorization, and continuous-monitoring activities
• Ensure user interfaces and electronic deliverables meet applicable accessibility requirements
• Collaborate with security, privacy, accessibility, and cloud teams to address technical and compliance requirements
• Prepare system architecture documents, build plans, operating procedures, security documentation, and user guides
• Document application configurations, interfaces, deployment procedures, dependencies, and technical decisions
• Collaborate with AI engineers, product managers, cloud engineers, security teams, and customer stakeholders
• Participate in Agile or Scrum planning, demonstrations, reviews, and technical working sessions
• Provide technical knowledge transfer and support to developers, administrators, and end users

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, software engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or a related field
• Five to ten years of relevant software-engineering experience
• Extensive experience in software development, scripting, architecture, and systems integration
• Experience with Agile or Scrum software-development methodologies
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and database-design principles
• Hands-on experience developing applications with multiple frameworks
• Full-stack development experience with PostgreSQL, Express, React, Node.js, or comparable technologies
• Experience designing and developing front-end, middleware, API, database, and back-end components
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools
• Experience managing Git-based continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines
• Experience with automated testing, code-quality controls, and software-release processes
• Experience integrating observability and monitoring tools into software systems
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, testing, and debugging skills
• Experience translating user and business needs into technical solutions
• Ability to prepare clear system, architecture, operating, and user documentation
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• U.S. citizenship is required
• The selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a federal public trust determination
• Experience deploying applications in Azure, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenShift, or comparable enterprise environments
• Experience integrating AI and machine-learning models, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and generative AI services into production applications
• Experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, ServiceNow, Microsoft 365, customer relationship management platforms, or related technologies
• Experience developing and operating cloud-native applications, containers, APIs, and microservices
• Experience supporting federal security-authorization processes
• Knowledge of National Institute of Standards and Technology controls, Controlled Unclassified Information, personally identifiable information, and FedRAMP requirements
• Section 508 development and accessibility-testing experience
• Experience supporting federal mission systems or disaster-response programs
• Existing favorable federal background investigation